Monthly Archives: October 2016

A newspaper in Colorado Springs announced the hiringof Scott Kilbury, a veteran newscaster, as theweekend anchor of a local TV news program. Thestory said that he is fluent in ASL. If he isreally that fluent, then why cannot he usesigns at the same time he voices out thelocal news? Yes, the news is captioned butthere are deaf people that prefer signs, notcaptions. A picture is at:

The USA national deaf women’s soccer team, which won theDeaf World Soccer championship this past summer, will notbe taking part in the 2017 Deaflympics in Turkey. Reasonis terrorism in parts of Turkey that has scared offthe players.

Will it lead to other American deaf sports groups alsoskipping 2017 Deaflympics?

Stay tuned!

— carnivals and the deaf

Americans love carnivals and fairs. Great food,Great rides, so much fun everywhere. But dodeaf people get as much out of these eventsas much as hearing people do? This was theissue raised by Bobbi Long of the WilliamJessup University in Rocklin, California.She said:

Most carnivals, deaf and hard of hearing donot have access to be able to communicatedirectly with the people that are running the booth

A hearing man operated a successful one-man business,selling and delivering supplies. He got into anaccident and lost his leg. Unable to get around thateasily with his customers, his business suffered.The business prospered again after he hired a deafman to make deliveries for him! It can only happenin Mumbai, India where oppression of the deaf andthe disabled is pretty much bad. The deaf man wasunemployed all his life until getting that job!

— bicyclists faking deafness

In Florida, it is possible that some bicyclistsare faking deafness! Florida law permits noheadphones or headset or other listeningdevices. Only exception is hearing aids.So, possibly some of these bicyclists“wear” hearing aids that are actuallymusical devices!

The governments of South Korea and North Koreaboth hate each other. Do the deaf of bothnations hate each other? Don’t know – butdeaf groups of two nations met up witheach other in a special friendship event.It wasn’t South Korea, as the deaf of Japanvisited the the deaf of North Korea forfive days recently. Helping arrange thevisit was the World Federation of the Deaf.In the picture, one thing was interesting.See the picture at:

A mother of a deaf child applied for disabilitybenefit in Canada (same as our SSDI) butthe government turned it down. How old isthe deaf child? Two years old! The mother,however, won’t give up and has filed aformal appeal.

— a deaf refugee in Calais

In Calais, there is a deaf child. His interpreteris his adult brother. The United Kingdom doesnot know what to do about it. If the deaf childis allowed to join the rest of his family inthe United Kingdom, the hearing brother(interpreter) will not be allowed to come,and must stay in France. This may mean thatthe deaf child has no one to interpret forhim and may be on his own.

We find sign language workshops at bookstores,at libraries, at classrooms, even at Starbucks.One location of a recent sign language workshopis unusual. It took place at an ice cream shopin Wilmington, NC! Not sure if it is easy learningsigns with an ice cream cone in one hand?

— easier to train: deaf dogs or hearing dogs

There are some dogs that are deaf. Are thesedogs more difficult to train than a hearingdog? A dog trainer in Michigan said – deafdogs are no harder or no easier than hearingdogs. The difference is that hearing dogsare trained by voice. Deaf dogs aretrained by following the hand signals.